COBALT 60

Cobalt-60 (Co-60)

Cobalt-60 is ideal for industrial gauging and leveling devices, as well as accurate detection of explosive devices. Cobalt is also used throughout the industrial radiography industry to detect structural damage to metal parts.

SOURCE DATA

Half Life: 5.27 Years

Primary Emission: Gamma

Primary Energy: 1.173 and 1.333 KeV

RWL: 15 Years

Capsule Materials: Stainless steel.

Cobalt-60 History

Cobalt compounds have been used for centuries to impart a rich blue color to glass, glazes, and ceramics. Cobalt has been detected in Egyptian sculpture and Persian jewelry from the third millennium BC, in the ruins of Pompeii (destroyed AD 79), and in China dating from the Tang dynasty (AD 618–907) and the Ming dynasty (AD 1368–1644) In 1938, John Livingood and Glenn Seaborg discovered cobalt-60.